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Even the time-honoured "snapshots of the whole directory into ZIP files" way of poor man's version control would have given you backups.
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haze2705yAlso, I use vim only for edits on remote server. That means I have original files on my local machine.
And git, of course. -
cprn17625y"Learn your tools" series, episode #69:
1. mkdir ~/.vim/undodir
2. set undodir=~/.vim/undodir
3. set undofile
Boom! Persistent undo. You fucked up your file? Great! Now open it again, tap `u` and presto! You saved the company! You're the hero!
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